All of my vegetable gardening books are many years old, most from Rodale Press purchased during the seventies. Rodale Books: ENcyclopedia of Organic Gardening Organic Plant Protection Plants-a-Plenty (lots on vegetative propagation) The Solar Greenhouse ORganic Gardening Under Glass (Someday I'll have one) The Self-Sufficient Suburban Gardener Getting the Most FRom Your Garden--This is the book that inspired us to switch to wide-row, deep-bed gardening. With these books and several years worth of ORganic Gardening magazines, we learned to garden. Another good book is Gardening, The Complete Guide to Growing America's FAvorite Fruits & Vegetables by the National Gardening ASsociation. My favorite flower gardening books are : Best Plants, 1000 easy-to-grow garden plants, published in Great Britain by Hamlyn but appicable here as it gives hardiness zones. Lovely pics. Flower Gardening 1-2-3, a Home Depot book, a great book for beginners Good Planting by Rosemary Very, another English book. But I love, love, love the chapter on Woodland Gardens and have used it as inspiration for my own The Long-Flowering Garden by Craigmyle, yet another English book with great photos. (I'm a sucker for 'purty pichurs'. The Perennial Garden, Color Harmonies Through the Seasons, by Jeff and Marilyn Cox is another Rodale Book I don't know if you can even still find these books, but that's my list for what it's worth. Dorothy

Well - after 1 1/2 hours of playing around with this, I feel like a complete dummie. I have resolved myself to having nearly 3000 contacts to import to my Gmail contact list. But I can't get anywhere. I have my AOl address book imported into Yahoo. When I try to import into GMAIL (doesn't matter if I use the older or newer version), it asks where to import from - and I can't find the .csv files. I have no idea where they'd be. Whe I select browse, it takes me to my documents - and it's not there. If I try to browse someplace else, I can't find it. It also occurred to me that it may not be in .csv form yet - but when I try to export from one Yahoo account (to say, thunderbird or another yahoo account) - it suggests I can export as csv file - I click on ("Yahoo! CSV: export) - and then it brings up a screen that says: you have chosen to open yahoo_ab.csv file from http://address.yahoo.com. What should firefox do with this file? My choices are "save file" or "open with: browse". If I click "save file" - I don't think anything is happening. And I wouldn't know what to select if I used open with .... Going back to GMAIL import, I have tried entering various names that I've seen in Yahoo mail. Including "yahoo_ab.csv" - but again, nothing happens. I had a similar problem trying to import into thunderbird - I simply don't seem to be able to locate the files to do it. I'd rather go directliy from yahoo to gmail (without going through thunderbird - bc. from what I was reading, thunderbird does not maintain my address groups - and that is important to me. In fact, if I could only import my groups - that is most critical part). I'm sorry I can't be more articulate about where I'm getting hung up. I have truly never felt so in the dark dealing with computer things (even as untechy as I am, I've had a little more grasp than this). Thanks. Lynn.

Wild Swan is probably my favorite book on China - fiction or non. The stories of her grandmother, mother and herself read like good fiction, and I came away with a much better understanding of modern Chinese history and culture then I had before. I agree - I don't think you can really make any generalization about any country, but esp not one so big. Yes we export some of our most glaring stereotypes for all to see. But its so very different between regions, states, rural/urban/suburban, and so dependent on class, race or nationalities. Rather an interesting mix, actually. Im in a website that has a language forum, and people from all over the country pop in with their favorite regionalisms, and comments on others. Makes me remember how really diverse this huge nation is, and makes me wonder how in the world we managed to all stick together for so long!

Lots of Golden Books (some from garage sales) that all had that brown horse, with the black main and tail...and little white mark on his head. Do you remember those? My husband blames all these books : ) Loved the Betsy books, Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, and of course....A Wrinkle In Time. The book is amazing! And I'm still trying to figure out what Charles Wallace's model of a tesseract looks like. But the description of the shortest distance between two points being a line (with apron strings held out far apart from each other) then bringing the two ends of the strings together to step across....best explanation ever of how a worm hole works!